Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen